skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electric golf carts have existed for a long time, sans government investment (I used to drive one in early 2000, when I worked as a gardener, before Tesla existed and green tech was a popular term). These are not really suitable cars, in that they do not provide the same mileage, safety, highway capability, etc. as a normal gas/diesel vehicle. A $10k, quality car could easily be possible in the future (manufacturing an electric engine is a much simpler process than a combustion engine). Keep in mind today's Kia's provide more luxury than a Mercedes from 1980.
That isn't actually what "insolvent" means. Insolvent refers to a situation in which an entity is unable to pay its debts as and when they fall due. Not whether they have a positive or negative asset position.

Strictly speaking, the balancesheet is irrelevant to Tesla's solvency.

My tennis club owns a property worth $20m from which it operates. It has debt of only $1m and repayment obligations of $100,000. It generates net revenues of $90,000. It is insolvent, with net assets worth $19m.

My startup technology company has no assets other than goodwill and intellectual property. It has no revenues. It has a line of credit from a financier sufficient to cover all expenses. It is solvent, with $1m of net liabilities.
Excellent! Two quick clarifications on what I mean by "just go goddamn start it".

1. For a majority of contemporary companies, the primary risk is not technical, but market driven. In other words, your biggest problem isn't figuring out how to build the solution; it's figuring out what the solution should be in the first place. A ton of progress can be made on this front without a single line of code.
2. A startup is beset with an unceasing torrent of problems. You need a programmer for your MVP, true; but what happens when you need to start marketing? Do you go out and try to recruit an all star marketer? But wait we need sales as well - how many people do you want to go out and find? I don't mean to say that you need to be able to do everything, but figuring it out is a crucial skill to have as a founder, and this is one of the times you'll be practicing it.

Good luck!
One would think that Moscow State University being second largest in Europe and 250 years old would somehow get a mention. Also KTH of Sweden ranking 100 spots below EPFL of Switzerland is a bit of a WTF.
I transfer between accounts all the time, and think it handles it well. Could you elaborate more?
منتدى شات عراقنا ، دردشة عراقنا
You need an accountant who knows both US and Swedish tax laws, double taxation agreements, etc. In general, if a business has no presence in the US, it would not be taxed in the US, but the tax laws are a twisted maze filled with traps for the unwary, so make sure that you go to a good accountant first.
The goal of a bank is to minimize risk, as they have a capped return. On the other hand, the goal of a VC is to maximize return, as their is no cap on the return. The business models are different, and both have their places.
Sure, only when it's your boss being racist, you don't have many other options than shut up or get fired. French white man here, apalled by 70% (yah, i did the math) of that whole thread. I don't care being called a colonialist because that's true, my country was a colonial empire, so was the UK, and so is the US now, with 200 years of history to catch up (irak anybody?). Laws against racism might be enforces, one day, in the US, who knows. It even happenned in moste European countries.

This guy did the right thing : stand up and talk. Obviously he cares more about telling "the world" than being patted on the shoulder. In other words, he somewhat did it the "black panthers" way, and as much as I like Martin Luther King and gandi, i don't believe you gain rights without fighting. For real.

Why that reaction of mine ? Cause it remembers me an episode of my youth, when i xas living with my Commando father (yeah, like your marines) in africa, and was the only white guy who stood up for a Malgache girl who was being bashed by a bunch of white guys, everyday on our way to school. I got beaten in front of the whole bus for about 15 minutes by the bunch of white racists guys. The driver, a black guy from Cameroon came to me the next day, and told me that he was glad i had to loose some teeth, because otherwise he would have lost his job.

So : racists are punks, a nuisance. I don't care about educating them. There are laws for them. I will fight them if i can, and yes, i hate them all :) (but i do like heavy metal, perl and javascript, yeas i do)
The minimum viable radio jammer is a high voltage spark. Not very subtle or safe though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter

Building a proper one is still pretty easy. It's carting around a big enough battery that's the problem.
I think the only use of these rankings is prestige. I went to a university that ranks quite highly in that list. And when I tell people what university I went to, they are quite impressed.

However, my university's ranking is pulled up a lot because it's medical and languages schools are amongst the best in the world. In computer science (the subject I did) it is decent but definitely not as highly ranked. But I still benefit from the "brand" my university has
>The actual hard working technical guys(programmers, hackers
>or whatever you may call them) are treated like commodity,
>worst like a foot ball tossed around by 'business guys',

True. However, more and more product based companies are setting up shop in India. Many of these have vigorous and interesting interview processes that identify truly capable technical people. And believe it or not, they offer very high pay packages that sometimes exceed that of Executives.

I agree that the number of such opportunities is still small compared to openings in Service-based companies. But the trend has started to catch on. Recently, Infosys announced an increasing focus on products because they realize that the services business ‘provides revenue that scales only linearly with headcount’. As more and more product work happens in India, core techies will gain greater value. Also, as the years pass: a) more Engineering students will graduate, the total number of really strong engineers (vs. the let-me-please-mom-n-dad types) will increase leading to the creation of great techie environments in more companies. b) more well experienced Engineers will stay in hands-on roles leading to proper mentoring that enhances the techie environments.

The Business guys will still be more important as anywhere in the world. But the treatment of programmers as commodities that worries you will decrease, IMHO.
Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?
I study in one of the largest universities in India. It is also fairly reputed within the country as well as outside.

During my 2nd year of engineering we had to complete a programming "mini project". If you're familiar with these you may know the quality of most projects.

Year after year you can see the same projects reappear, some even to the point that the old student's details aren't changed in the source code to reflect the new owner's!

So we had to complete this project by forming a group - minimum of 2 students and a maximum of 4. The guideline? It should have a UI (duh!) and a database. The clear instructions from the professor were to use only Visual Basic or Java. The syllabus booklet obviously mentioned that any suitable language could be used.

I went to him to ask if it was OK to do a "web based", "database-enabled" & "User Interfacing" application. To say that he was agitated would be a euphemism. It was like I had insulted him. To placate him, I respectfully pointed out that it was perfectly okay for me to use a language that I was comfortable in and that a web-based project was in fact a norm.

To avenge the dishonor I had brought him, he bullied another member of my group to leave my group just an hour before the demo to an external professor (a professor from some other college who is invited for the demo and viva voce).

Meanwhile the demo went great, the external was very satisfied with the answers to his questions although I can be sure he was a little happily surprised that I had coded it myself completely. My professor sitting next to him was fuming with rage. I gladly left the hall being sure of making it satisfactorily.

I was dumbfounded when I found it on my report card that I had failed getting only 10% of the total allotment for the project and the re-hashed project managed to score 90% and above.

The sad thing is most of my colleagues didn't even try to code or come up with an idea. Even sadder is the fact that if you do, the professors make sure to take it personally and pull you down instead of motivating or giving a helping hand.
Professional Packing Loading Service Company
CodeKit — Mac App For Web Developers
[Ask HN] Feedback on an app I have been developing
Uhm, doesn't this spur your ambition?

With something like firebug installed, it takes about 20s to find "div#main-photo-container>noscript" holding the image on flickr in all it's glory.
Hence "was". It was widely used at one point, if only because it was enabled by default until 2002 (disabled by default was introduced in PHP 4.2)
I've been 100% long TSLA since the beginning and really don't understand the reasoning behind the doubts people have - given how little they actually know about a) the car industry and b) electric batteries and c) the ability to think on first principles and not by analogy. But I guess everyone has the right to an opinion - even if most of them aren't a) warranted b) backed up or c) logically reasoned.

We are past peak oil. Battery tech will reach oil parity within the decade. Solar PV will reach grid base line within the next 2 decades. Fusion will be introduced within the next 3 decades. Electric engines already run 92% efficiency (vs the combustion engines 15%) and global warming externalities are finally being priced.

The electric car is a no brainer (it wasn't a decade ago, and it'll be too late a decade from now) just like the electrification of trains were. This company will electrify suburbia and reduce costs while they are at it.

Timing + skill = Very nice stock returns (timing is about 10x more important).

Disclaimer: Goes without saying - I am long TSLA and will continue to be long for the foreseeable future.
Specifically I am looking at feedback on these questions
1. What aspect of the site confused you?
2. What would improve this site?
3. Will you buy this app? For how much?
4. If no for 3, why not? What can improve your chances of buying?
Why not go oldschool?

Behold: Mona Lisa in pure html (!!), because more bytes is better.

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/lJxAe
(may crash browsers)
Hmm, thanks for the tip about about the SIM card; I was excited to read that, as I happened to have a US SIM card in my bag (here in Tokyo).

But, after replacing the Docomo SIM with the US SimpleMobile SIM and rebooting, while I do indeed get some variant of the US store, I still can't access various things I've purchased or that I would be able to access from within the USA (movies, magazines) presumably because I am physically located in Japan, and those items aren't available here.

So they are doing something with the SIM card, clearly--putting in the US card changes my Play store to some lobotomized version of the US store with whole sections missing. But they are also somehow using my physical location to restrict my account block my access to things I have purchased in the USA.

With Apple's credit card-based authorization, this does not happen.

Either way sucks, but for me personally Apple's way is a lot better, because things don't stop working when I physically move. (They would instead stop working if I had to cancel all my credit cards in one country, though.)
Unfortunately, browsers are not up to the job so far. For example, page-break-inside:avoid is only supported by Opera[0]. Maybe Prince [1], which is not for free, though.

[0] http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_print_pagebi.asp
[1] http://www.princexml.com/
We used a third party payment processor for this reason. We also let people tweet their order number: https://twitter.com/i/#!/search/backer%20number%20lockitron
One would think that right up until they read the grading methodology.
Have an unpleasant encounter with the sharp end of a "fair use" restriction, it looks like. ;-)

Really, though, 50Mbps is not uniquely much - outfits like 100tb.com have been selling "lots of bandwidth" for a long time. This sharply limits the number of unexplored options you'll have.

That said, there are always open-source projects looking for additional mirrors.
My problem with HTML5 is that you have to use JavaScript on the client. Until browser vendors implement other languages I'll stick with native.
I haven't looked at all the data released, but for the sample I did look I didn't see a breach of a university's central records system - they were breaches of things like the university's diving club's phpbb forum.

Fairly mundane as these things go.
Sorry to nitpick, but don't you mean highpass filter? You want to keep the assholes out ;)
Many big businesses are even less cost-effective than govt. departments (I used to work at AOL, don't get me started...). The difference is that they must become cost-effective, or die (assuming they do not get a govt. bailout). Some businesses are very cost-effective (love them or hate them, Wallmart has an incredible track record; Valve, despite spending pretty liberally, makes more money per employee than most companies). The worst case scenario is when a government gets involved with a private business, particularly GSEs -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac being good examples: both reaped huge profits from their risks, but when they collapsed ended up costing US tax payers billions of dollars and destroying the economy. Long story short: the government has one job: to ensure the basic functionality required to run a country. It is not the govnernment's job to distribute tax payer money as venture capital. Leave businesses and other risks to entrepreneurs and investors.
Capitalism and currency as a concept have no understanding of ethics, morals or good vs. bad built into them.

The responsibility of enforcing and encouraging ethical behavior is on the shoulders of the government and broader society. For example, if we take that selling people's personal information is "evil" as a given, it would not be a profitable practice if literally everyone did not accept it as a fair practice or the government could theoretically censor it completely. There would be no money to be made because potential buyers would distance themselves from it.

To take it to the extreme, for example, if our culture valued something as blatantly evil and extreme as cannibalism and the government had no laws against such actions, there would unfortunately be money to be made on selling human tritip as gruesome as that is.

The point is that the trend you notice of companies profiting from "evil" actions (I agree with this) is more a reflection of the current status of society, our value system, and the government than it is of capitalism or business. If we all were purely "good", the nature of what is profitable would be quite different.
It may be silly, but if you wanna really know something, you have to measure it. Maybe the methodology is wrong, or maybe a true ranking should be multidimensional, but you have to start somewhere. Every endeavour in this direction must not be shut down, but encouraged, analyzed and constructively criticized.
Wohnungsräumung
Wohnungsräumung wien , Wohnungsräumung
Wohnungsräumung Wien und Österreichweit ,Herzlich Willkommen Bei Luxusumzug „Wohnungsräumung“ , Als Spezialisten für Wohnungsräumung, Räumung wien, Haushaltsauflösungen, Nachlassauflösungen und Entrümpelungen, Entsorgung präsentieren wir uns Ihnen auf dieser Webseite. Durch Mehrjährige Erfahrung bietenwir.
Kerry/Bush debate has similar dynamics to Romney/Obama
"Insolvent" can be defined either relative to cash flow or to the balance sheet; from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolvency:

"Cash flow insolvency involves a lack of liquidity to pay debts as they fall due. Balance sheet insolvency involves having negative net assets—where liabilities exceed assets. Insolvency is not a synonym for bankruptcy."
Nope, your tennis club is not "insolvent". It's illiquid. It means it doesn't have cash but enough worth to take pay his obligations. At least, that's what Sal has explained in his KA videos.
If you dislike JS so much, why don't you use some cross-compiler?
No, he was not a tax attorney. I agree, it seems outrageous but it doesn't seem completely impossible. If the servers are located in the US one could argue that the company is doing business in the US.
The October Issue of PenTest Regular is out
Biometrics: The Struggles of a Misunderstood Technology

Biometrics as a Second Factor of Authentication
by José Alberto Canedo

Biometrics: Something More Than Security

How Biometrics Enhance Our Enterprise Security

Biometric Security by Means of Online Handwritten

The Problem with Biometrics for Establishing Identity

Problems Biometrics Make Worse – Identity Validity Escalation in Enterprise CRM Systems

Biometrics: A Panacea to Verifying and Authenticating Identity?

How Effective is Face Recognition in an Airport?

Security Measures to Consider When Preparing for a BYOD Environment

Penetration Testing: Protecting Networks and Systems

A 24/7 Geek? Interview with Michael Largue, CEO of Biotecnix Limited
I'll grant your overzealous hyperbole just on the strength of finding that quote.
Return of Daily Video Series
The Government can be a fickle VC / angel investor, at times. Especially when there's no broad political support for a particular position.

Much as any other investor representing a non-monolithic interest base can be fickle.

When the government's all-in (oil, energy, ag, air travel, transport, military), it's very dependable.
Hi abhimir

I find the design looks pretty :-)
But what is confusing to me is, that you don't link your Social Media accounts - this should be possible prelaunch.

KR, Fabian
Sadly, I think you may be right. We can do better though, because it still sucks. Something merging the innovations in thread sorting from HN and cherry picking from large amounts of comments from /. would be nice.
Maybe he was upset about the Kickstarter to build a Tesla museum. Maybe he wanted an Edison museum.
What good is a methodology if the results are off.
So the whole time you were home, your door was unlocked? Even while you were sleeping?
So... It's a bitmap-image written in CSS boxshadows. It's a bitmap written in text.

The resulting CSS is 247KB. Taking the same image and saving as a JPG (which I think is fair, since it's fairly blurry) results in a 40KB file. That's more than 6 times smaller.

If you scale it down to the detail level found the CSS (each CSS-"pixel" being a 4x5 unit) even a PNG will easily beat it at 24KB. Here the JPG also clocks in at 6KB.

So I don't get it. Using CSS, using a text-format to encode bitmaps has always been and will always provide subpar results. Ok. So it can be done. We know that. It has been proven times and times again.

Apart from that: What's the point?
Microsoft's XBox ecosystem is a fenced pasture, same goes for Apple's app store but I believe that these are only split into regions under external pressure, therefore are outside of the scope of my original rant (I reserve the right to rant about them on another occasion :) )

My rant was about what you call copyright cartels and I called, perhaps less precisely, the content industry. These are the ones who like their sheep neatly separated into physical pastures (geographical regions) and push for crap like DVD region coding and keeping the geographical fences on the virtual pastures of other companies (like Apple or Microsoft.)
We gave something like this a shot (and missed). Collecting background GPS data and transmitting it to a third party service in the background is currently hard and battery intensive. Highlight does it though!

There are some good ideas in here. Thank you.
Orchestra Adds PHP 5.4 Support
I know it won't matter much and you would just have to take my word for it, but i would love to study in valley, get a masters or something. Although would come back after education (if I am not selected into YC).
I just turned 29 and this depressed me.
Inforegio: EU Regional Policy - Projektbeispiele - Projekten
We are not using anything fancy, it's just Google Analytics, redis and postgres. If we send anything out to the world (email, link to partners, open graph action) we tag it either with a google analytics campaign or a unique identifier so we can trace it back to our database. Every 12 hours, using a bunch of SQL commands + API calls we get a report in the mail.
"Of course, it's not handcrafted" LOL
Casa de ferias, Holiday house, Ferienhaus Algarve
I can't help but feel this is an attempt to calm people from switching to mapbox (http://mapbox.com/) and OSM. The price is now on par but unless they improve their JavaScript API I can't find a compelling reason to go back to Google Maps.
Even though we are a tiny fraction the size of Netflix, it seems a good time to mention that at MUBI we try our best to do the right thing. That is, if you subscribe to MUBI in one country, you can use that subscription in any other country. This is non-trivial because film rights are highly localized and we have different films available around the world, but we have at least a few hundred in every single country. But it gives you the advantage that you can travel and see new films that wouldn't otherwise be available.

It definitely does get thorny around integrations (PS3/PSN billing), but it's something we actively think about.
Recommendation to the founders:
Change the flow:

1. Story writing. As a guest, let me write my story right away. Give a few story ideas.

2. Sign up. Make it optional. Tell me I can share my story anonymously but if I want to keep it forever, allow me to sign up then.
XA Transactions: A Simple Guide
I know the founder of remenis.com he explained to me the idea in Dec 2011. But good luck to everyone, I was never super impressed with the idea in the first place. Whats the difference between this and blogging socially on wordpress.com or blogger or tumblr?
Works just fine here in FF 15 - and even looks better than in Chrome, because the stripey distortions are missing.
> beyond a certain point, liquidity
> stops having any practical value.

Hogwash. Price improvement is "practical value".

If you're selling an asset, there always practical value to have an immediate buyer willing to pay you a better price than the next guy. That's why auctions go to the highest bidder rather than the second higher bidder.
Yes, maybe I do! Just need to make the sure you end up being an ageing Rockstar programmer rather than retired Lounge singer
In short, yes, and I'm in my 40s.

I actually returned to programming after years managing programmers in part because I was unhappy. I realized that the further I got from the machine and _making_ the less happy I was.

So, if you asked me whether I wanted to be 'managing' at 50, I'd say "Hell, no!".

The enjoyment of making things work, learning and shipping it real. I hope I'm still able to feel those things at 80. I never got the same satisfaction and enjoyment from managing people and processes.
I don't like the ratings. It says nothing about how good the university is for students. Only how many papers etc. the university publish.